Noriaki Kitamura, an unemployed man from Takasaki, has denied the charge. Ginger kitten playing with a cardboard box.

Fukazawa and his victim worked together in a laboratory in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo. "When we found her, blood covered everything above her chin. But police from Gunma Prefecture put out a surveillance photo of their suspect: a dapper young man dressed in tight clothes and pointy shoes and carrying a large black bag who allegedly had been acting suspiciously near the incidents.